"...red meat causes bowel cancer" is much too strong a statement. It's
certainly a risk factor but that's all. Otherwise most of us in the
Western world would be contracting colon cancer (there is no association
with rectal cancer). The strongest association is genetic. I attempted
to discover the actual risk associated with red meat but couldn't find
it other than behind a paywall. Indians have a considerably lower risk
or colorectal cancer than the rest of the world which might tend to
implicate meat of any type but even that's an assumption not really
warranted.
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/2/2012 3:40 AM, Brian Swale wrote:
> Just a thought or two.
>
> I'm going to wait until I've read the book to say much more; except for what's
> below.
>
> The site that Chuck posted nearly crashed Chrome browser on my machine
> (due I think to the huge volume of comments) but I managed to load it all
> and save it with an early version of Opera which ignores all the bloat code. I
> will read it at my leisure. One MB (approx) is a hell of a lot of text.
>
> Remember it was only 40 - 50 years ago when it wasn't too difficult to find a
> medical doctor who would say either that smoking was harmless, or was
> healthy. Times have changed.
>
> There is a large body of evidence to show that red meat causes bowel
> cancer.
>
> It has been shown that eating (green) broccoli (especially if you start early
> in
> life) gives significant protection against cancers.
>
> What I noticed when I was a student in zoology and botany, and on any
> particular topic where there were extreme opinions held on some
> controversial topic, the eventually agreed correct answer was somewhere in
> the middle.
>
> It wouldn't surprise me if this applies to the propositions made by Dr
> Esselstyn. In other words, there could be substantial truth in what he wrote.
>
> Brian Swale.
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